software defined networking (sdn) and facebook

Due to agility needs, budget constraints, and compliance mandates, smaller enterprises now have the same need for software-defined principles used the world’s largest webscale data centers. Read more »

Facebook has been building its own servers and storage gear for years, and last June announced its first-ever networking gear in the form of a top-of-rack switch called “Wedge.” On Wednesday,… Read more »

Earlier this month, Facebook announced a new data center networking architecture that it calls, fittingly, “data center fabric.” We had Facebook Director of Network Engineering Najam Ahmad on the Structure Show… Read more »

Facebook detailed on Friday a new networking technology dubbed Data Center Fabric that coordinates all of the information flowing throughout its new data center in Altoona, Iowa. The Altoona facility is… Read more »

For enterprise-IT practitioners and data-center operators, SDN delivers networking with the same level of flexibility and agility as virtualization has allowed them to deliver other parts of their infrastructure. Read more »

Cisco on Wednesday unveiled its plans to counter the threats to its business from startups pushing open networking hardware and software built on merchant silicon. What it didn’t do was launch… Read more »